Vista wont start..

[SeanV]

This is totally random.. been running vista fine since the day it came out..

OUT OF NOWHERE.. blue screen of death...


....Windows cannot start because windows file registry is missing or corrupt.

Please boot from disc blah blah... SO I boot from the vista disc, it Loads
the files, then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AGAIN... STOP:Unknown Hard error

So I cant repair the registry.. wtf do I do now!?!

 

[Frank]

SeanV wrote:
> This is totally random.. been running vista fine since the day it came out..
>
> OUT OF NOWHERE.. blue screen of death...
>
>
> ...Windows cannot start because windows file registry is missing or corrupt.
>
> Please boot from disc blah blah... SO I boot from the vista disc, it Loads
> the files, then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AGAIN... STOP:Unknown Hard error
>
> So I cant repair the registry.. wtf do I do now!?!

Go to a restore point after you boot from the DVD.
Frank

 

[SeanV]

Frank, did you even read my post? It wont let me boot from the disc... I get
an error..


STOP: Unknown Hard error

 

[Andrew McLaren]

"SeanV" <SeanV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> This is totally random.. been running vista fine since the day it came
> out..
> OUT OF NOWHERE.. blue screen of death...
> ...Windows cannot start because windows file registry is missing or
> corrupt.
> Please boot from disc blah blah... SO I boot from the vista disc, it Loads
> the files, then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AGAIN... STOP:Unknown Hard error
> So I cant repair the registry.. wtf do I do now!?!

Hey Sean

Might be a dumb question but .. are you *sure* you're booting from the DVD,
when you get the second 0xC0000221 error?

If the machine is configured to boot from the hard drive first, you can put
the DVD in the DVD drive, reboot, and the machine will boot normally - but
still from the hard disk, not from the DVD! I have made this mistake myself,
so ... anyways, check in the BIOS that you are booting from the DVD first.

If you are booting Vista from the DVD and you get a 0xC0000221 STOP error,
even before you get to the Repair options, then there may be a fundamantal
problem with your hardware: bad memory, incompatible BIOS, or the like. In
that case, you better tell us more about what kind of machine you have.

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

 

[Frank]

SeanV wrote:
> Frank, did you even read my post? It wont let me boot from the disc... I get
> an error..
>
>
> STOP: Unknown Hard error

My bad and I'm sorry, I'm posting on 3 computers at the same time.
You may have a hardware failure, nothing to do with software or Vista.
Frank

 

[Lang Murphy]

"Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message
news:%23%23YBH4cwHHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> SeanV wrote:
>> Frank, did you even read my post? It wont let me boot from the disc... I
>> get an error..
>>
>>
>> STOP: Unknown Hard error
>
> My bad and I'm sorry, I'm posting on 3 computers at the same time.
> You may have a hardware failure, nothing to do with software or Vista.
> Frank


Frank,

Kudos for admitting an error. (Something -never- seen from those you parry
with on a regular basis.)

Lang

 

[Peter Foldes]

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"SeanV" <SeanV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:073D1279-0628-48F4-A02F-BFAE27AB7C83@microsoft.com...
> This is totally random.. been running vista fine since the day it came out..
>
> OUT OF NOWHERE.. blue screen of death...
>
>
> ...Windows cannot start because windows file registry is missing or corrupt.
>
> Please boot from disc blah blah... SO I boot from the vista disc, it Loads
> the files, then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AGAIN... STOP:Unknown Hard error
>
> So I cant repair the registry.. wtf do I do now!?!

 

[Peter Foldes]

Sean

Can you complete the rest of the error message after the following line that is showing in it's entirety

STOP:Unknown Hard error

--
Peter

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"SeanV" <SeanV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:073D1279-0628-48F4-A02F-BFAE27AB7C83@microsoft.com...
> This is totally random.. been running vista fine since the day it came out..
>
> OUT OF NOWHERE.. blue screen of death...
>
>
> ...Windows cannot start because windows file registry is missing or corrupt.
>
> Please boot from disc blah blah... SO I boot from the vista disc, it Loads
> the files, then, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AGAIN... STOP:Unknown Hard error
>
> So I cant repair the registry.. wtf do I do now!?!